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The role of networks in achieving academic library goals

Larsen, Ronald L.

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Title
The role of networks in achieving academic library goals
Author(s)
Larsen, Ronald L.
Issue Date
1994
Keyword(s)
  • Academic libraries
  • Networked information
Abstract
In this paper, I will look more closely at computer networks and, in particular, at how networks are affecting academic libraries' ability to meet their goals. I will consider a typical set of academic library goals, and then explore the interactions between network technology and meeting goals such as these, and the implications that follow. The apparently inevitable conclusion is that the tradition of sharing that already exists among libraries will become much more fundamental to the success of libraries. Indeed, even the notion of a library as a stand-alone physical entity may be in question as libraries become inextricably linked with each other in the pursuit of their goals. The virtual library concept evolves from this line of thought.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Series/Report Name or Number
Emerging communities : integrating networked information into library services [papers presented the 1993 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, April 4-6, 1993]
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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1993: Emerging communities: integrating networked information into library services PRIMARY
30th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1993). Edited by Ann P. Bishop.